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Mechanics and Symmetry

Euro Summer School
 
  Coordinator: James Montaldi
(University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis)

The first of two European Summer Schools on Mechanics and Symmetry.

Dates:
Arrival: Sunday 3rd September, 2000
Departure: Saturday 16th September, 2000.

Location: Peyresq, France (not far from Nice)

Funding: MASESS is partially funded by the European Union, and travel and subsistence is available for European "young researchers" (aged at most 35).

Lecture courses
Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry Tudor Ratiu (Lausanne)
N-Body Problems Ken Meyer (Cincinnati)
Geometrical Integrators for N-Body Problems Ben Leimkuhler (Leicester)
Topology of Integrable Systems Richard Cushman (Utrecht)
Hamiltonian Bifurcations James Montaldi (Nice)
Hamiltonian Methods for Fluids and Plasmas Darryl D. Holm (Los Alamos)
Each course will consist of up to 6 90-minute lectures.

There will also be other individual lectures on topics close to the lecture courses
Scientific committee:
Jerry Marsden, James Montaldi, Tudor Ratiu, Mark Roberts

Local organizing committee:
James Montaldi, Pascal Chossat

European Commission contract number: HPCF-CT-1999-00067

James Montaldi
Last modified: Fri Aug 25 16:29:05 BST 2000